More info from the Daily Mail on the Ebola Mission

[Fran Sheffield]

I have just lifted the following, and our thoughts on it, straight from our facebook page. What do others think about how we are being reported?

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'Homeopathy CAN cure Ebola': Doctors attack 'armchair intellectuals' at World Health Organisation who refuse to let them treat deadly virus with snake venom remedy
- Medics want to treat Ebola victims with remedies backed by Prince Charles
- They accuse critics of 'ridiculous' disbelief over snake venom treatments
- Say World Health Organisation should approve Ebola homeopathy 'cure'
- Reveal they treated dying children with arsenic, Spanish fly remedies

Read the Daily Mail's article in full. While it is often criticised for its sensational stories, and though it clearly has a limited understanding of homeopathy, we think they've tried to provide a balanced report from the available evidence - and they're the only news service doing so. The silence from WHO about this missed opportunity for testing homeopathy against Ebola virus disease is deafening. Once again, it's hard to imagine that anyone would refuse harmless free medicine to dying people ... but that's exactly what happened.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... emedy.html

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Fran.

[Rochelle Marsden]

What a terribly written article this is. So repetitive. They obviously didn’t have enough to write.
Rochelle
From: minutus@yahoogroups.com [mailto:minutus@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: 19 November 2014 22:45
To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Minutus] More info from the Daily Mail on the Ebola Mission
I have just lifted the following, and our thoughts on it, straight from our facebook page. What do others think about how we are being reported?

....

'Homeopathy CAN cure Ebola': Doctors attack 'armchair intellectuals' at World Health Organisation who refuse to let them treat deadly virus with snake venom remedy
- Medics want to treat Ebola victims with remedies backed by Prince Charles
- They accuse critics of 'ridiculous' disbelief over snake venom treatments
- Say World Health Organisation should approve Ebola homeopathy 'cure'
- Reveal they treated dying children with arsenic, Spanish fly remedies

Read the Daily Mail's article in full. While it is often criticised for its sensational stories, and though it clearly has a limited understanding of homeopathy, we think they've tried to provide a balanced report from the available evidence - and they're the only news service doing so. The silence from WHO about this missed opportunity for testing homeopathy against Ebola virus disease is deafening. Once again, it's hard to imagine that anyone would refuse harmless free medicine to dying people ... but that's exactly what happened.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... emedy.html

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Fran.

[Fran Sheffield]

That is true but I think for a paper that doesn't know a lot about homeopathy and the political pressures around it, they have at least tried to be balanced.

From what I understand the Daily Mail is often a scandal sheet? The fact that they are at least reporting on what has happened without turning it into a total beat-up of homeopathy, WHEN NO ONE ELSE WILL (sorry for the caps), means they deserve a pat on the back from my perspective.

We may be a little sensitive about the way some homeopaths and their practices are perceived and reported but if it's true, we will just have to own that and understand that these are things that make homeopathy look wacky to the more conservative elements.

But we are talking about a situation in which large numbers of people are dying, children being orphaned, and economies trashed from something that is likely to be easily stopped with homeopathy - and that's what is most important, and at least the Daily Mail is reporting some of the information we would like shared.

Because of the petition, a couple of DM journalists / reporters have spoken to me and both said they were not looking to do a beat-up. I was also able to tell them about the evidence we have and ask them to ask the hard questions such as why was there rapid opposition to this mission and why does WHO refuse to consult with homeopathy they have recognised it as the second-most important medical system in the world, and when it has an excellent track-record during epidemics, and when there is nothing else on offer. At least the Daily Mail looks as if it has considered these questions.

Nobody else in media-land is.

[Rochelle Marsden]

I would have thought someone else would have taken this up.
From: minutus@yahoogroups.com [mailto:minutus@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: 19 November 2014 23:40
To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Minutus] More info from the Daily Mail on the Ebola Mission
That is true but I think for a paper that doesn't know a lot about homeopathy and the political pressures around it, they have at least tried to be balanced.

From what I understand the Daily Mail is often a scandal sheet? The fact that they are at least reporting on what has happened without turning it into a total beat-up of homeopathy, WHEN NO ONE ELSE WILL (sorry for the caps), means they deserve a pat on the back from my perspective.

We may be a little sensitive about the way some homeopaths and their practices are perceived and reported but if it's true, we will just have to own that and understand that these are things that make homeopathy look wacky to the more conservative elements.

But we are talking about a situation in which large numbers of people are dying, children being orphaned, and economies trashed from something that is likely to be easily stopped with homeopathy - and that's what is most important, and at least the Daily Mail is reporting some of the information we would like shared.

Because of the petition, a couple of DM journalists / reporters have spoken to me and both said they were not looking to do a beat-up. I was also able to tell them about the evidence we have and ask them to ask the hard questions such as why was there rapid opposition to this mission and why does WHO refuse to consult with homeopathy they have recognised it as the second-most important medical system in the world, and when it has an excellent track-record during epidemics, and when there is nothing else on offer. At least the Daily Mail looks as if it has considered these questions.

Nobody else in media-land is.

[Fran Sheffield]

It would have been nice if they did.

What we are told via our news sources seems to be increasingly censored.

That was never more obvious than with the recent CDC Whistle blower story in which a CDC researcher broke ranks and revealed that their research showed 10 years ago that black American children developed autism at a much higher rate than white children following the MMR vaccine - but it was covered up and people were not told.

In spite of the uproar in the alternative press and autism groups, the mainstream media refused to report on it.

[Rochelle Marsden]

> They probably got paid not to!!
Rochelle
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Sent: 20 November 2014 00:28
To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Minutus] More info from the Daily Mail on the Ebola Mission
It would have been nice if they did.

What we are told via our news sources seems to be increasingly censored.

That was never more obvious than with the recent CDC Whistle blower story in which a CDC researcher broke ranks and revealed that their research showed 10 years ago that black American children developed autism at a much higher rate than white children following the MMR vaccine - but it was covered up and people were not told.

In spite of the uproar in the alternative press and autism groups, the mainstream media refused to report on it.

[Dale Moss]

This whole affair is just so sickening! What's the WHO so afraid of? That homeopathy might prove its worth? That they'll be accused of trying "untested" meds on terribly ill people... as if that's not what they're already doing.
Peace,
Dale